Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 88
... what we heard was a living , vivid , racy , precise language , full of wonderful inton- ations . It was a mine of linguistic ore , and probably that was why young Odessa writers , who were later to become famous , 88 Years of Hope.
... what we heard was a living , vivid , racy , precise language , full of wonderful inton- ations . It was a mine of linguistic ore , and probably that was why young Odessa writers , who were later to become famous , 88 Years of Hope.
Page 115
... living , for in those days , no one except Izya Livshitz went in for stereoscopic photographs , and even Izya bought them only out of pity . The old man kept a dusty globe with faded colours standing on the pavement beside him . For ...
... living , for in those days , no one except Izya Livshitz went in for stereoscopic photographs , and even Izya bought them only out of pity . The old man kept a dusty globe with faded colours standing on the pavement beside him . For ...
Page 148
... living and singing in that world , this extraordinary man , such as are born once in a century . He takes us by the hand - insignificant people , crippled by our " properly run " lives - and leads us to those dunes over a northern sea ...
... living and singing in that world , this extraordinary man , such as are born once in a century . He takes us by the hand - insignificant people , crippled by our " properly run " lives - and leads us to those dunes over a northern sea ...
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